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By Benjamin Goron on 7 April 2019 Uncategorized

Rudi, la leçon Serkin. André Tubeuf Actes Sud, 2019, 224 pages **** André Tubeuf, an admirer as well as a friend of Rudolph Serkin, pays homage to the great pianist in a book that guides us through memories, recordings, concerts and shared meals. The book is divided into three movements that follow each another naturally. The first recounts the beginnings of the pianist’s career, including his collaboration with Adolph Busch and the momentous day when he embarked on the Goldberg Variations. The second, which could be marked appassionata, deals with Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms. We discover the…

Canada Opera Company Announces New Opera For Toronto Programming

By Newswire on 28 February 2019 Uncategorized

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company is bringing opera to new places and spaces with Opera for Toronto. The free programming initiative aims to introduce new audiences to the art form, with a special focus on opening up the COC’s operations and rehearsal space, the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre at 227 Front Street E., to neighbouring communities. “Opera for Toronto creates a cultural access point,” says COC General Director Alexander Neef. “For our neighbours, the programming is a chance to sample opera in a casual, intimate setting while also having a chance to explore our home base and…

Four New Young Artists to Join COC Ensemble Studio for 2019/2020

By Newswire on 5 February 2019 Uncategorized

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, Canada’s premier training program for young opera professionals, welcomes four new artists for the 2019/2020 season: tenor Matthew Cairns, bass-baritone Vartan Gabrielian, mezzo-soprano Jamie Groote, and Alex Soloway as a pianist and intern coach. The four will join the Ensemble Studio in August 2019 and become part of a program that has launched the careers of over 230 Canadian opera professionals. This past November, Cairns, Gabrielian, and Groote won the top prizes at the 2018 Centre Stage Ensemble Studio Competition, where young artists also vied for acceptance into the Ensemble Studio program.…

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Graphic Notation – Stepping Into a Visual World

By Benjamin Goron on 4 February 2019 Contemporary, Uncategorized

Every musician has undoubtedly seen graphic notation written by John Cage, Morton Feldman and other masterminds of this link between music and visual arts. What is behind these mysterious scores that start with symbols on a staff and end up looking like abstract designs? Danielle Palardy Roger and Joane Hétu, co-directors at SuperMusique, have helped us discover this mystery through workshops and concerts presented for more than 20 years. “From its inception, SuperMusique was mostly made of self-taught professionals from the theatre, visual arts, and street music industries,” said Roger. “Graphic notation brought all of us around the music table.”…

A Baroque Retreat

By Vincent Lauzer on 5 November 2018 Uncategorized

The Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival in New Brunswick is the dean of Canadian festivals dedicated to this music. Since its inaugural concert in 1970, a harpsichord recital, the festival has spread its wings. In years past, it welcomed the leading names in the field, both Canadian and international. Its founder, Mathieu Duguay, was truly a man of vision. No one back then could have imagined a baroque festival lasting all these years, and so far away at land’s end of the Acadian Peninsula. The very fact of organizing an event like this in an area with so few musicians…

Faith and Folly — Taking Up Serpents, a New American Opera, Bows in Boston

By Charles Geyer on 26 September 2018 Art Song, Choral, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Indigenous, Interviews, La Scena Online, La Scena Spotlight, Musical Theatre, Opera, Theatre, Uncategorized, Vocal

PREVIEW: of a public workshop performance with orchestra of the new opera Taking Up Serpents – libretto by Jerre Dye, score by Kamala Sankaram; presented by MassOpera, Boston; Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 3 p.m.; Deane Hall at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts (527 Tremont Street, Boston); the opera is a commission of the Washington National Opera and this workshop is presented by MassOpera. In the final passages of St. Mark’s Gospel, Christ declares that a hallmark among his true believers shall be a willingness that “they shall take up serpents!” And in certain quarters…

Game On! Cerise Jacobs Boots Up PermaDeath, the First Video Game Opera

By Charles Geyer on 25 September 2018 Interviews, La Scena Online, Musical Theatre, Opera, Theatre, Uncategorized, Vocal, World Music

PREVIEW: of the new opera, PermaDeath, by Cerise Lim Jacobs and Dan Visconti, which will play Boston’s Cutler Majestic Theatre for three performances, September 27, 28 and 29, 2018. The theater dims. A martial blare and glistening orchestral clamor suddenly rives the murmuring darkness, and a bewildering vista of strange, vast landscape floods the stage. Two beautiful, luminous, titanic beings – the sibling gods Apollo and Artemis – are in pitched battle with the massive, earthen Niobe and her fourteen grotesque offspring. The stuff of mythic dreams? Yes. But it’s also the planned dazzler of an opening for the new…

Met Opera and Union Groups Reach Ground-Breaking Agreement to Allow Sunday Matinee Performances

By Newswire on 15 September 2018 Newswire, Uncategorized

New York, NY (September 14, 2018) – For the first time in the history of the Met, Sunday matinees will become part of the weekly performance schedule, it was announced today as part of the recent agreement with the Met’s musicians and chorus that was ratified today. The Met’s management and representatives of two of its largest union groups, the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802 (orchestra, music staff, librarians), and the American Guild of Musical Artists (chorus, singers, dancers, stage staff, staff performers), reached this landmark agreement for a new contract after a summer of bargaining. The agreement…

News from the Industry

By Benjamin Goron on 30 August 2018 Uncategorized

CANIMEX Le concours de musique du Canada CANIMEX, véritable tremplin pour les jeunes générations de musiciens, fêtait en 2018 ses 60 ans. Parmi les sept grands prix cette année, on retrouve la violoniste Lynette Israilian et le CANIMEX Earlier this year, the CANIMEX Canadian Music Competition celebrated its 60th anniversary. The two grand prizes of this annual event, dedicated to the promotion of homegrown talent, were awarded to violinist Lynette Israilian, 21, and pianist Raymond Huang, 15. A native of Sainte-Dorothée, Israilian is pursuing her studies at the Montreal Conservatoire under the tutelage of Johanne Arel. On July 9, she…

Our 2018-19 Arts Resource Guide Is Here !

By Newswire on 27 August 2018 Arts Industry, Classical Music, La Scena Online, Newswire, Scena Arts, Uncategorized

La Scena Musicale is pleased to announce that its annual Arts Resource Guide is finally here for the tenth year in a row. The resource guide, which is the only one of its kind in Quebec, is an excellent source of information for the province’s music lovers, and for arts students and their parents. This year, the guide will continue its user friendly digest format. A total of 25,000 copies will be distributed Quebec-wide. Readers will find essential information on music, dance, theatre, film and visual arts in this bilingual directory, which will include both regional and national listings. Special…

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